Pirate Nano: First and Last Words of Yesterday

First Words of Yesterday: Him, with the pointed chin and the set-jaw smile?

Last Words of Yesterday:  Minotaurs?  Whatever floated their boat.

I wrote 857 words yesterday on Addergoole, which brought me to 22,513 - and in the final stretch!

Anything you would be interested in as bonus material in the Addergoole: Book One book?

February: World-Building Month

piratekitten has declared February world-building month.

So!

here's a landing page with most of my universes on it.

I will take the first 28 questions about any of my settings and answer 1/day for the entirety of February.

Go!

Questions Asked:
Planners
1. How organized was their beginning? Answer

The Aunt Family
2. How unique is the family? Answer
10. Ruan seems to be in a different genre from the rest of the family... What changed? Answer
17. What actually happens when someone becomes The Aunt? Answer
22. Request to update the Aunt Family Tree (and start separate trees for offshoot branches whose relationship to the main tree is not yet established)

Addergoole
3. Do the Nedetakaei have anything even vaguely similar to the Addergoole school? Answer
11. How did the parents of the first generation of Addergoole students justify signing up their daughters for forced pregnancies? Answer.
19. What happens to someone who's Changed and cannot find or persuade an adult to Mentor them? Answer.
25. What's the reasoning behind keeping future Addergoole students in the dark about pretty much everything? Answer.
29. Keeping: Was it part of the original plan or it something fae? Is there any specific magical binding for Keeper and Kept? I just read a reference to 'Hell Night' and wasn't caught so he should be home free. Is being caught at Hell Night how you get to be Kept?

Faerie Apocalypse
4. Did the blindness of the fae go away for good after the Apoc? Answer
31. What does the world look like in the year 2150? Answer

Vas' world
5. Are there other colonized planets in this universe? Answer
21. More about how the lost colony got there and came to be lost: Here.

Tir na Cali
6. Does the West Coast being cut off from the US change anything for the way the modern US works? Answer
13. Why cats? Answer
23. Is there a stereotype for who the slavers take? Answer.
26. Why did it originally start out as a hostage situation? Answer

Space Accountant
14. What do the pirates actually pirate? Answer
16. What do the external economics and logistics of the pirate ship Genique is stuck on look like? Answer

Stranded
7. is perceiving and manipulating strands innate or learned? How do people acquire and develop these abilities? Answer
12. Was there a first person to discover the strands? Answer

Dragons Next Door
8. How do dweomers originate? Answer
20. How did a magic-ignorant to magic-averse race of technology users wind up the clueless dominant race in a world full of magic, some of it not at all subtle? Answer.

Unicorn/Factory
9. What do the factories produce? (Other than pollution ...) Answer
24. How and why were the unicorns chained? Answer
27.Where did the unicorns originally come from? Answer

Fairy Town
18. What made Fairy Town different? Answer

Facets of Dusk
30. Who discovered the portal thingies? How did it start out? Answer


Meta
15. How do you-the-author develop the rules of magic in the various 'verses that have magic? (Or Mad Science, in the worlds that have that.) Answer.
28. Do any of your universes have a "big bad" or a "he who must not be named"? Answer.

Matchmaker, matchmaker, a story of Addergoole Year 17 for Trope Bingo

To clare_dragonfly's prompt to this trope_bingo card.

This fills my "Matchmaker" square.

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